Significance of the Study Organization of the Report Previous Study

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1.6 Significance of the Study

1 For teachers This study is expected can be one of the references for teachers in doing various ways in teaching learning process especially in speaking class. 2 For students In other side, think-pair-share strategy is expected to help students enjoy their English speaking class in order to improve their speaking ability. This strategy will increase student’s collaboration in completing assigned task. 3 For readers The study of this research will be a good reference for readers who concern about cooperative learning strategy. 4 For researcher The study is expected to be one of the guidances for me to build an effective teaching learning process, especially for speaking class.

1.7 Definition and Key Terms

1.7.1 Speaking Skill for Senior High School

Harmer 2001: 87 defines “speaking activity as an activity or a task which asks students to have speaking ability to communicate, express thoughts, ideas or feelings orally.” 6 1.7.2 Cooperative Learning Kagan 1994 states that “cooperative learning is a successful teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject.”

1.7.3 Think-Pair-Share

According to Kagan 1994 Think-Pair-Share TPS is a collaborative learning strategy in which students work together to solve a problem or answer a question about an assigned reading.

1.8 Organization of the Report

This final project consists of five chapters: the first chapter presents general background of the study, reasons for choosing the topic, statement of the problem, objective of the study, statement of hypothesis, significance of the study, definition and key terms, and organization of the report. The second chapter deals with the theoretical foundation of the study obtained from reviewing related literature which discusses about speaking skill, cooperative learning, think-pair- share, and experimental method. The third chapter describes method of investigation, which consists of research design, the experimental design, and variable and data collection. The fourth chapter deals with the analysis and the discussions of the research findings. Then the last chapter presents the conclusion of the research and suggestions based on the results of the research findings. 7 CHAPTER II REVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE This chapter deals with previous study, speaking skill, cooperative learning, think-pair-share and experimental method.

2.1 Previous Study

In this sub-chapter, I am going to discuss the previous study from other studies which have similarities with my study. Before conducting an experimental research with the topic ‘think-pair- share’, I have found some studies using this strategy in any subjects, such as physics, mathematics, geography and chemist. In Setyowati’s study entitled Pengaruh Penerapan Strategi Think Pair Share dalam Pembelajaran Problem Posing PP-TPS terhadap Prestasi Belajar, Kemampuan Problem Posing, dan Motivasi Belajar Siswa Kelas XI IPA SMAN 1 Probolinggo pada Materi Pokok Kelarutan dan Hasil Kali Kelarutan, she 2008 states that the students’ achievement of the experimental group increased 84,41 after conducting think-pair-share strategy in teaching learning process. It is different with the control group 61,30 which has not been given treatment by using think-pair- share strategy. Another study is Penerapan Model Pembelajaran Cooperative Learning Tipe Think-Pair-Share TPS untuk Meningkatkan Hasil Belajar Siswa 8 Kelas VIII SMP N 14 Tegal dalam Pokok Bahasan Sistem Persamaan Linear Dua Variabel conducted by Hernawati. She states that through Cooperative Learning in the type of Think-Pair-Share TPS, the students’ achievement of the Eight Grade of SMP N 14 Tegal in Linear Equality System Two Variable increased 2007 : 45. Rini 2011 conducted a study on The Effectiveness of Using Cooperative Learning Think-Pair-Share TPS Method as a Means of Teaching Reading Comprehension to the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA 5 Semarang in the Academic Year 20102011. The aim of the study is to find out whether teaching reading by using think-pair-share is effective or not for Senior High School students. The result shows that the students’ achievement of experimental group is better than the control group in which the experimental group was given treatment by using think-pair-share in teaching reading. Based on the result of the previous study above, I decided to use think-pair-share strategy in teaching speaking for the tenth grade students of Senior High School students in order to improve their speaking ability.

2.2 General Concept of Speaking Skill